upper
上层,上,上部,上方
Related Words
Definitions
- 1
- : higher, as in place, position, pitch, or in a scale: the upper stories of a house; the upper register of a singer's voice.
- : superior, as in rank, dignity, or station.
- : at a higher level, more northerly, or farther from the sea: the upper slopes of a mountain; upper New York State.
- : Stratigraphy. denoting a later division of a period, system, or the like: the Upper Devonian.
- 1
- : the part of a shoe or boot above the sole, comprising the quarter, vamp, counter, and lining.
- : an upper berth.
- : a gaiter made of cloth.Compare gaiter.
- : Usually uppers , an upper dental plate.an upper tooth.
- : Informal. the higher of two bunks or berths.
Phrases
- upper crust
- upper hand
- upper story
- keep a stiff upper lip
- on one's uppers
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
High temperatures may once again stay below freezing, in the upper 20s to low 30s.
Temperatures tonight reach the low 20s well north to the upper 20s well south.
In the upper two thirds of the oven, there’s still a lot of room to play around.
Temperatures still struggle to warm much, with highs in the upper 30s.
Those upper-ocean waters held 234 sextillion joules more heat energy in 2020 than the annual average from 1981 to 2010.
Kanye refuses to stomach any rejection, no matter how upper crust.
If only Sulzberger had managed to keep a zipped upper lip while leaving the dirty work to anonymous underlings.
White, upper-middle-class, Ivy-League educated white men, however Great they are, are falling out of power.
Targeting her upper back, Couple sat cross-legged on a table while she whipped her slave.
When I came to New York after college I was taken with the world of Jewish intellectuals and the Upper West Side.
“Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.
On the upper part of the stem the whorls are very close together, but they are more widely separated at the lower portion.